The Bluest Eye Summary

As Toni Morrison has become one of America's most celebrated contemporary authors, her first novel The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, has gained increasing attention from literary critics. Most of the novel is narrated by a young black girl, Claudia MacTeer, who is part of a poor but loving black family in Lorain, Ohio, in the 1940s. However, the primary focus of the novel is on Pecola Breedlove, another young black girl who lives...

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The Bluest Eye
by Toni Morrison
One of America's most celebrated African American novelists, Toni Morrison has won both the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born Chloe Anth...
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Toni Morrison Biographies (7)

Toni Morrison (born 1931) was best known for her intricately woven novels, which focused on intimate relationships, especially between men and women, set against the backdrop of African American cultu...
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"When they say I'm a great American novelist," Toni Morrison commented to Gail Caldwell in an interview published in Conversations with Toni Morrison, "I say, 'Ha! They're trying to say I'm not black....
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One of the most prominent contemporary analysts of the black experience, Toni Morrison has, within a decade, established herself as a significant American novelist. As a senior editor at Random Hous...
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When her picture appeared on the cover of Newsweek in 1981 and her fourth novel, Tar Baby, was on the year's best-seller list, Toni Morrison was an anomaly in two respects: she is a black writer who...
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[This entry was updated by Catherine E. Lewis (University of South Carolina) from the entry by Denise Heinze (Western Carolina University) in DLB 143: American Novelists Since World War II, Third Seri...
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Biography EssayToni Morrison is one of America's most important writers of fiction. She has received critical acclaim, most notably the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Beloved (1987), the 1978 National Book C...
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Toni Morrison was born and raised in Lorain, Ohio. "Only The Bluest Eye, my first book, is set in Lorain. In the others I was more interested in mood than in geography.... [However], no matter what I ...
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In Toni Morrison's, The Bluest Eye, the author uses point of view as a technique to emphasize her writing. Different narrators are used throughout the novel in order to show a different aspect of the ...
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"Dandelions. Why do people call them weeds? I think they're pretty. Nobody loves the head of a dandelion" (Morrison 35). "They are ugly. They are weeds" (Morrison 38). Pecola, the main chara...
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In the third chapter of The Bluest Eye, entitled "Autumn", Toni Morrison focuses on Pecola's family, the Breedloves. Morrison goes in depth about the family dynamic of the Breedloves and how it affect...
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Toni Morrison, the author of The Bluest Eye, centers her novel around two things: beauty and wealth in their relation to race and a brutal rape of a young girl by her father. Morrison explores and exp...
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Have you ever seen an attractive person that makes you notice a sudden flaw in your appearance? A person may think that their life is unfair because they do not have what they want. In the novel, The ...
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The novel The Bluest Eye written by Toni Morrison is subjected on a young girl, Pecola Breedlove and her experiences growing up in a poor black family. The life depicted is one of poverty, ridicul...
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The Bluest Eyes, by Toni Morrison was an uplifting and wonderful tale of a young African American girl growing up during 1939, who experiences the pain of beauty and acceptance of others. The story te...
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In The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison uses a tone of frustration and mild anger towards dolls, but more specifically, towards racial differences. Morrison is frustrated as she is trying "too see of what i...
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Over time our society has conditioned African Americans into believing that in order for you to function well in this society that he or she must possess features revered towards white Americans. You ...
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Plot:
The story begins curiously with a little girl's description of marigolds and dead hope for a child about to bear her father's child. It's difficult to interpret the meaning of the opening and t...
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The Bluest Eye Book Notes is a free study guide on The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Browse the summary below:
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